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P. T. GATES. WASH BOA-RD.

NO. 251,710. Patented Jan. 3,1882.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PHILEMON T. GATES, OF NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR 0F ONE-HALF TO JACOB H. NELLIS, on GANAJOHARIE, N. Y.

WASH-BOARD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 251,710, dated January 3, 1882.

Application filed January 13, 1880.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, PHILEMON TENNEY GATES, of the city of New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Wash-Boards; and 1 at) hereby declare that the following is afull, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art-to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

My invention has for its object to provide a r 5 wash-board ofimproved construction, whereby alternate rubbing-surfaces of wood and metal are provided on each side of the board; and it consists in the combination of a frame of ordinary construction, a series of wooden bars arranged transversely in avertical line within said frame, and a corrugated sheet of metal interposed between the bars and exposed alternately upon opposite sides of the board, covering alternate bars of the series upon either 2 5 side thereof. By this construction the bars and corrugated metal sheet derive mutual support from each other, and a board is formed which is reversible and alike on both sides, and which has upon either side a practical composite rubbing-surface of wood and metal of vary ingfrictional power.

In the accompanying drawing the figure represents a perspective vertical section of my improvements.

In carrying out my invention the frame is composed of two uprights or standards, A, united together by means of the cross bars A D, and E, in the usual manner. The series of wooden bars B are set transversely in the 0 frame and arranged in a vertical line, their ends resting in angular or irregular grooves in the standards. A sheet of metal, 0, which is corrugated or fluted transversely of its length, so as to form alternate projections or ribs and depressions or grooves upon eitherside, the ribs of one side forming the grooves of the other side, is placed within the frame, and so arranged as to cover alternate bars of the series upon opposite sides of the board, respectively, the grooves forming a setting for the bars. Bymeansofmyimprovementstheyielding or bending of the exposed wooden bars under the pressure of the operator causes, by means of the metallic sheet, a like yielding of the adjoining covered bars, so that the pressure is distributed over the several bars and a uniform rubbing-surface secured.

I am aware that a wash-board has beendevised in which a sheet of vulcanized soft rubber is interwoven with a series of wooden bars in such a manner as to cover on one side of the board alternate bars of the series, and I do not therefore desire to claim sucha construction, broadly; but,

Having thus described myinvention, what I claim as new and useful is- As an improved article of manufacture, the herein-described reversible wash-board, consisting of the frame provided with a. series of wooden bars, B, arranged transversely therein, and with a stiff corrugated sheet of metal, 0, interposed between the bars and exposed alternately upon opposite sides of the board, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own invention Iaffix my signature in pres ence of two witnesses.

PHILEMOX TENNEY GATES.

Witnesses:

JAMES P. McLEAN, EDWIN A. GALIND. 

